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Harvard intern summarizes five‑part housing work for Iowa City
Summary
Harvard undergraduate intern Adele Rylot told the City Council she worked on five projects during a Bloomberg‑funded city fellowship, including a Housing Authority rebrand, a staff referral map, street‑outreach data collection, lived‑experience incorporation and a regional website update.
Adele Rylot, a Harvard undergraduate serving as an intern under the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, summarized five housing‑and‑homelessness projects to the Iowa City Council during its work session. She told the council she focused on clarifying the Housing Authority’s jurisdiction and visual identity, building an ArcGIS referral map for staff, supporting Shelter House’s street‑outreach data collection, researching lived‑experience advisory models, and updating the Johnson County homeless‑coordinating‑board website.
"My name is Adele Rylot. I'm a junior at Harvard studying political science and biology, and I've been lucky enough to work on Nora on a variety of projects related to housing and homelessness," Rylot said, describing outreach to service providers, landlords and rural partners. She said the referral map is designed as an ArcGIS interactive resource for staff and that a public‑facing version is in development.
Nora Cahill, the city’s public policy analyst and Rylot’s supervisor, told council the internship offered projects that were priorities for city staff and helped connect the intern to a range of departments and community partners. Councilmembers thanked Rylot for outreach across Johnson, Washington and Iowa counties and praised the practical, staff‑focused nature of the work. The presentation concluded with council encouragement to continue integrating the intern’s products into ongoing city initiatives.
